Ren Suxi's "Wasteland" cured my mental internal friction

It's March, and the smoke of the Spring Festival has long ended, but for theatrical movies, I believe that many people have a small psychological shadow like me, that is, the time is a little long! So much so that after each show, you have to let out of the theater with a long yawn to get refreshed.

But I never expected that a quietly launched "Wasteland" cured my "watching fatigue".

The whole film is only 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes), and the overall rhythm is unprocrastinating and clean.

This sense of neatness comes from the excellent editing, and it is closely related to the "minimalist style" that has always been in this film.

The scene is simple, except for a few flashbacks that take up a few pages, the background is all endless and lifeless wasteland.

The relationship between the characters is simple, and there are only three people in the main line, a pair of brothers and sisters who went to the desert together and their long-missing father, but the father appears in the memory, and the brother was seriously injured at the beginning, so the protagonist of survival in the wasteland is actually only the sister alone.

The story line is also very simple, originally the brothers and sisters planned to look for their father who disappeared ten years ago as before, but unfortunately encountered a sandstorm and the brother came to get injured, so the burden of getting out of the wasteland and looking for life fell on his sister Jungle (played by Ren Suxi) alone.

Alone, trekking through the wilderness, seven days in a row.

This is a simple straight but not pale and monotonous main line, unvarnished but real enough, no thrills, no adventures, only about "how to live alone".

From the travel blogger style of sunglasses and sun hats fully armed at the beginning, to faltering steps, to limping with crutches and lugging luggage, from slippery skin, to chapped lips, to sand seeping into pores and faces like cracked earth... From seven days in a person in harsh conditions, the audience is able to see the survival instinct and true state of a person in a state of extremes.

This presentation is loud because it is close to the essence of life.

I watched the whole process so heart-wrenching and shocking, I couldn't help but substitute myself: If I were her, what would I do? Am I going to be like that, or am I not as brave as her?

As a lucky person who grew up in the spring breeze of reform, compared with the older generation, at least he has not been hungry and has not lacked clothing, and now he has caught up with the era of material abundance, online shopping is becoming more and more convenient, live streaming is popular, mobile phones have to be replaced every year, and the fashion style changes every once in a while, as long as you want, there is nothing that cannot be bought, there is no money that cannot be spent.

Even if the economy is down, the desire of the Chinese people has swelled to an unprecedented new stage.

And this "Wasteland" is like a fine needle, piercing the colorful bubble, allowing the essence of life to be revealed - water, food, the right temperature, can form the basis of a person's survival.

Don't be delicious, don't dream, when we pull the bottom line to survival, we will find that those elements that are really important to the existence of life are precisely the things that are usually most overlooked.

At the same time, faced with an existential crisis, many things become insignificant.

For example, dignity, bugs can eat, urine can be drunk, what is disgusting and not disgusting, face is not face, who looks?

For example, pain, anesthesia can not be used, alcohol directly poured on the wound, pain is better than ulceration and disability, right?

For example, clothes, which can be taken off in public, if it is necessary to release a distress signal by ignition without fuel...

After watching "The Wasteland" on life's "shaving flesh and bones", I can't help but admire Mr. Maslow, the hierarchy of needs theory he proposed is really accurate, before the foundation of survival is firmly laid, dignity or self-realization, everything is a false talk.

But it has to be said that when survival is a problem, people will become particularly easy to satisfy, a little water, a little green, a little living sound can make people smile and rekindle hope.

At that time, you may be powerless, but there is no confusion, because your belief is single and firm, that is, to live. Since it is already on the verge of death throes, of course, a little leaning on the "life" side is a kind of progress and turnaround!

Sitting in the audience, watching Ren Suxi being abused on the screen, on the one hand, I felt very lucky, fortunately, I was in the city and enjoyed the fruits of modern civilization;

On the other hand, the head is like an endless wasteland without grass and endless in the piece, without distractions, awake and abnormal, as if breaking through the layers of reinforced concrete wrapping and the powerful information flow of layers of surrounding, seeing the essential needs of the self and the true face of life - first is to live, and then live well, not so complicated. Knowing this, confusion and deprivation were swept away in an instant.

Too many temptations lead to too many choices, which will bring confusion; It is scarcity that core needs are overwhelmed by huge material and endless comparisons. Just as people trapped in the desert just want to find the source of water, find the point that is most related to the lifeline, and people's perseverance can be truly activated in a chaos.

If you are confused and frustrated at the moment, this "Wasteland" may bring some useful inspiration: also learn to do subtraction like a movie, find your most "thirsty point", and don't compare with others and lament how you want nothing, but see more about what you already have to create for yourself.

For example, that you have come so far and you have lived to this point is in itself an achievement, a victory. What's more, you still have your family and your healthy body... You have more resources at your disposal than the jungle in the desert that has lost her parents and can't find a drop of water, she can survive, why should we give up and not cheer ourselves on?

Although the film does not give a follow-up, I believe that if there is really a person in the jungle, then after the rest of her life after this disaster, she will definitely become more optimistic and contented than others, and know how to cherish life more, and she will definitely become more courageous and fearless.

Because life has been thrown into that situation, as long as it is better than that, it is not too bad; It is precisely because he has struggled on the edge of life and death, and the ghost gate has been there, what else is there to be afraid of?

We might as well think about the low point of our lives, since we have gone smoothly, what reason is there to be unhappy now? What is there to worry about the suffering after that?

Watching a film related to extreme survival such as "Wasteland" is not to capture a spectacle, but to activate the life energy in the heart that has been spoiled by the hotbed or gradually numbed in fatigue.

Author: Miss Bovary

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